Bureacracies must fail! It's in their DNA.

A somewhat lengthy blog entry describing why bureaucracies inevitably grow until they collapse, and in fact are incapable of simplifying themselves even slightly. Here's a nice quote:

"... a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes suddenly and dramatically simpler, which is to say right up to the moment of collapse. Collapse is simply the last remaining method of simplification."